Greater than 1,000 of Sadiq Khan’s Metropolis Corridor workers are on a wage of £100,000 or above, figures reveal

Sadiq Khan was accused of betraying London taxpayers after figures revealed Metropolis Corridor employs 1,100 individuals on a wage of £100,000 or above.

Metropolis Corridor and its subsidiaries, together with Transport for London (TfL) and the Metropolitan Police, are funded by means of the mayoral principle, which has risen from a median of £276 in 2016-17 to £471 subsequent yr.

In the meantime the variety of six-figure earners is up from 655 in 2018-19 to 1,146 final yr, with 772 of them working for TfL alone. The transport physique additionally had 18 staff on over £250,000.

Susan Corridor, Conservative mayoral candidate, stated: ‘Beneath Sadiq Khan, Metropolis Corridor has changed into one large gravy practice, with tons of of workers receiving salaries larger than the highest 4 per cent earners within the nation. Most of the workers immediately chargeable for bringing within the Ulez growth are incomes over £100,000, paid for by the poorest Londoners by means of his £12.50 each day tax.’

Regardless of the capital’s knife crime issues, the variety of staff receiving over £100,000 within the Mayor’s Workplace for Policing and Crime, which incorporates the Met Police, has risen from 80 to 301 over the previous 5 years. The mayor himself obtained £171,587 in 2022-23, up £21,000 in contrast with 4 years earlier.

Elliot Keck, of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, stated: ‘Metropolis Corridor is bursting on the seams with the rising variety of officers bringing house the large bucks’

Subsequent month Londoners are braced for a 4.99 per cent council tax enhance, with extra in boroughs similar to Croydon.

Elliot Keck, of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, stated: ‘Metropolis Corridor is bursting on the seams with the rising variety of officers bringing house the large bucks. Sadiq Khan ought to give taxpayers a break and maintain a lid on these senior salaries.’

A spokesman stated the mayor provided ‘aggressive salaries to draw the workers wanted to assist ship on the problems that matter most to Londoners’.